Patents Examined by Joshua Benitez Rosario
  • Patent number: 10056794
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine, in which a cross conductors of a stator connect slot conductors so as to stride N+1 slots at coil ends on one side and stride N?1 slots at coil ends on another side, with N representing a number of slots per pole, a stator winding includes a plurality of slot conductor groups each made up with a plurality of slot conductors corresponding to a single phase, the plurality of slot conductors in each slot conductor group are inserted at a predetermined number Ns of successive slots forming a continuous range along a circumference of the stator core so that the slot conductors in the slot conductor group take successive slot positions and successive layer positions, Ns=NSPP+NL when NSPP represents a number of slots per pole per phase and a number of layers is expressed as 2×NL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Saito, Hiroshi Hamano, Ryoji Kobayashi, Taisuke Ikeda, Yuji Kano
  • Patent number: 10033314
    Abstract: A generator is provided having a first array of magnets and a second array of magnets. The first array is typically disposed in a first elongated Halbach configuration and the second array of magnets is disposed in a second configuration. The first and second arrays are configured to manipulate a net flux field to form a figure eight flux field between the first and second arrays. At least one coil disposed between the first and second arrays, such that relative movement of the first and second arrays with respect to the first coil generates an electric current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: MAGNELAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Rudolph Oelofse
  • Patent number: 10027216
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus that includes a motor, flywheel, transmission, and generator. The motor converts an input energy into mechanical energy to rotate an output shaft coupled to a shaft of a flywheel. The design characteristics of the flywheel provide substantially uniform rotational speed to its shaft when the flywheel rotates. The rotating shaft of the flywheel connects to an input shaft of a transmission that includes a gear train that transfers the rotational speed of the flywheel to an output shaft of the transmission. The output shaft of the transmission drives an input shaft of a generator that converts the rotational speed to an output energy. After an initial start period, the output energy is sufficient to sustain mechanical operation of the apparatus, and provide power to external devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: No Fossil Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Elliot Anderson, Robert E Craft, III, Stephen Mullinix
  • Patent number: 10020694
    Abstract: A generator includes a plurality of magnets defining one of a rotor and a stator, a conductor including a core and a coil, the conductor defining the other of the rotor and the stator, and a shaft to which the stator is fixable. The core has a width inwardly narrowed from an outer edge toward an inner edge along a longitudinal direction of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Inventor: Ja Choon Jung
  • Patent number: 10020695
    Abstract: A motor stator device with simple coil-winding structure is disclosed. The motor stator device includes an insulating base comprising an outer ring base, an inner ring base and a connection base, the outer ring base and the inner ring base alternatively forming outer ring openings, inner ring openings, outer ring sinks and inner ring pillars, the connection base being provided to be wound with a metal coil; a plurality of stator segments being positioned on the insulating base; and a plurality of segment connectors being positioned on the outer ring sinks between the insulating base and the stator segments and having a base part and an extension part opposite to the base part, the extension part being integrally extended from the base part and toward the motor rotor to get close to the inner ring pillar next to the motor rotor, so as to decrease the cogging torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: ABLE ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yen-Peng Chuang
  • Patent number: 10008905
    Abstract: A hollow motor module as a combination of a motor and a speed reducer is disclosed. The motor includes an outer stator, a first rotor and a plurality of second rotors. The first rotor is peripherally provided with a first coil and is installed in the outer stator. Each of the plural second rotors is peripherally provided with a second coil and is installed in the first rotor. The second rotor has a coupling portion extending out of the first rotor. The outer stator has first magnets that work with the first coil to magnetically excite the first rotor to rotate. The first rotor has second magnets for the second rotors. The second magnets work with the corresponding second coils to magnetically excite the second rotors to rotate synchronously. The speed reducer is connected to the coupling portions of the second rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Precision Machinery Research & Development Center
    Inventors: Che Chien Chen, Han Pei Wang
  • Patent number: 10008890
    Abstract: A rotor and an electric motor including the rotor are provided. The electric motor includes a rotor and a plurality of stators. The rotor includes a plurality of main magnets that are disposed spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction with respect to a rotation axis of the rotor, and have a magnetizing direction that is a direction of the rotation axis, a plurality of auxiliary magnetic units that are disposed on both sides of each of the main magnets in the direction of the rotation axis, and have a magnetizing direction that is the circumferential direction, so as to concentrate magnetic flux in each of the main magnets, and a plurality of webs that are disposed between the auxiliary magnetic units so as to generate a reluctance torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-Ho Kim, Seong-Taek Lim, Jin-Woo Cho
  • Patent number: 10008912
    Abstract: A magnetic drive device may comprise a stator comprising a plurality of windings for generating a first number of magnetic pole pairs and a rotor comprising a plurality of permanent magnets for generating a second number of magnetic pole pairs that differs from the first number of magnetic pole pairs. The magnetic drive device may further comprise a plurality of free-spinning interpole elements disposed within an air gap between the stator and the rotor. The interpole elements may produce a magnetomotive force and harmonically couple the magnetic pole pairs of the stator with the magnet pole pairs of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.
    Inventors: Kent R. Davey, David Cardellini, Cliff A. Swiontek
  • Patent number: 9997975
    Abstract: A driving apparatus (101) is provided with: a base part (110); a driven part (130) which is capable of rotating; an elastic part (120a, 120b) which connects the base part and the driven part and which has elasticity for allowing the driven part to rotate around a rotational axis which is an axis along one direction (Y axis); a coil part (140) which is disposed on the base part, wherein the driven part is disposed on an outside of a winding of the coil; and a magnetic field applying part (151, 152) which applies the magnet field to the coil part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9997986
    Abstract: A rotatable magnetic coupler includes disc carrying, circumferentially spaced magnets arranged in rows on a first side of the disc. The magnets are oriented such that one pole of a first magnetic polarity from each magnet faces outwardly from the disc rotation axis while the other pole of a second magnetic polarity for each magnet faces inwardly toward the axis of rotation. The inner row magnets are preferably of lesser height than the outer row magnets to intensify a virtual gear-coupling effect in the magnetic field lines. A magnetic coupling is formed when two such couplers are rotatably mounted sufficiently close to one another that their magnetic fields are coupled together, such that rotation of one coupler rotatably drives the second coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Inventor: James Haggard
  • Patent number: 9997967
    Abstract: In the rotor of the present invention, each magnet has an inward part adjoining the rotor core and an outward part positioned outward of the inward part in a radial direction of the rotor core. The outward has a facing surface which faces a stator and a pair of side surfaces which extend from two end parts of the facing surface in a circumferential direction toward the inward part. The inward part has a pair of overhanging parts which overhangs outward in the circumferential direction with respect to the pair of side surfaces of the outward part. Each locking projection of the rotor core passes between overhanging parts of two adjoining magnets and projects outward in the radial direction to engage with the overhanging parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Senoo
  • Patent number: 9979256
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine may include a rotor that includes a laminated core arranged on a rotor shaft, wherein the rotor has at least one end-winding cover that encloses the laminated core in the axial direction of the rotor shaft, the end-winding cover has at least one inner face facing the laminated core, and a balancing ring is concentrically arranged around the rotor shaft on the inner face of the end-winding cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Bulatow
  • Patent number: 9973056
    Abstract: A motor mounting assembly for mounting a motor includes a motor base and a motor mounting fixture. The motor base has an elongate slot and a threaded adjusting rod. The motor mounting fixture cooperates with the slot for securing the motor to the base and includes a fixture body and a coupling member. The fixture body includes a fixture base and first and second oppositely disposed legs. First and second apertures extend through the first and second legs and a motor fastener projects proximally from the fixture base to be received in the slot. The coupling member has a through bore aligned with the first and second apertures between the first and second legs. At least one of the first aperture, the second aperture, or the bore includes screw threads engaging the adjusting rod for adjusting a position of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: The Overly Hautz Motor Base Company
    Inventor: Thomas Copanas
  • Patent number: 9948213
    Abstract: A power supply includes a rotor having an undulated surface (658, 858, 958, 10, 58) and a magnetostrictive material disposed adjacent to the undulated surface. The undulated surface alternatingly compresses the magnetostrictive material as the rotor rotates, inducing an electric current in a conductor coupled to the magnetostrictive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Thomas Hay, James H. Dudley, Robello Samuel
  • Patent number: 9945457
    Abstract: A linear rotary mechanism includes: a pair of elongated guide rails in parallel to each other: a linear motor having a tubular primary side slidably disposed on the guide rails and a shaft-shaped secondary side coaxially extending into an internal hole of the tubular primary side, the shaft-shaped secondary side being axially linearly reciprocally movable along the tubular primary side; and a rotary motor fixedly disposed on the guide rails and connected with one end of the shaft-shaped secondary side. Accordingly, the rotary motor is linearly reciprocally movable along the tubular primary side in synchronism with the shaft-shaped secondary side and the guide rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: HIWIN MIKROSYSTEM CORP.
    Inventors: Kou-I Szu, Yu-Jung Chang, Chih-Kai Fan, Ying-Jung Chen
  • Patent number: 9935505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laminated core, preferably a stator laminated core or a rotor laminated core (2), of an electric machine, in particular an electric fuel pump of a motor vehicle. The laminated core comprises slots (6), each of which has a slot insulation (7), and winding wires of at least one electric winding (10), said wires running in the slots (6). A plastic encapsulation (17) encases the laminated core together with the winding wires which run in the slots (6) at least in some regions. The plastic encapsulation (17) and the slot insulation (7) each consist of a thermoplastic, and the plastic of the slot insulation (7) has a melting point which is equal to, similar to, or lower than the melting point of the plastic of the plastic encapsulation (17) such that the encapsulation process causes the slot insulation (7) to melt, thereby bonding the slot insulation (7) to the plastic encapsulation (17). The invention further relates to a method for producing a laminated core and to an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Himmel, Ursula Stucke, Joost Nowak, Ingo Buchholz, Alexis Spinner
  • Patent number: 9923439
    Abstract: A hybrid induction motor includes a fixed stator, an independently rotating Hybrid Permanent Magnet/squirrel Cage (HPMSC) outer rotor, and a Squirrel Cage (SC) inner rotor fixed to a motor shaft. The HPMSC rotor has spaced part permanent magnets and sets of first bars between consecutive permanent magnets. The SC rotor has groups of second bars, and slots in an outer surface between consecutive groups of the second bars. The HPMSC rotor is initially accelerated by cooperation of the stator with the first bars. The permanent magnets create a rotating magnetic field cooperating with the second bars to accelerate the SC rotor. As the HPMSC rotor accelerates towards synchronous RPM, the stator field reaches into the HPMSC rotor and cooperates with the permanent magnets to transition to synchronous operation. Salient poles created by cooperation of the permanent magnets with the slots lock the two rotors at synchronous RPM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: MOTOR GENERATOR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Louis J. Finkle
  • Patent number: 9892839
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for unloading a rotor bearing is described. The apparatus includes an electromagnet for levitating the rotor. In one embodiment, a sensor of the magnetic field near the electromagnet is used to control the current to levitate the rotor. In another embodiment, a method is provided that includes rotating the rotor, increasing the current to levitate the rotor and decrease the gap between electromagnet and rotor, and then reducing the current to levitate the rotor with a minimal amount of electric power to the electromagnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Amber Kinetics, Inc.
    Inventor: Seth Robert Sanders
  • Patent number: 9887608
    Abstract: A rotor with four axially stacked rotor cores, and a plurality of field magnets interposed between them. Each rotor core includes a rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole. Each rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles are respectively extending from and formed on each rotor core at equal angle intervals. Tip end surfaces of the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole abut against or are closely opposed to each other axially. Tip end surfaces of the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles abut against or are closely opposed to each other in the axial direction. The plurality of field magnets are magnetized in the axial direction such that the field magnets causes the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as first magnetic poles, and cause the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as second magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Yusuke Morimoto, Masashi Matsuda, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9871419
    Abstract: A rotor of a permanent-magnet embedded motor includes a rotor core having magnet insertion holes along a circumferential direction and a magnet inserted into each of the holes, wherein a gap is formed at opposite ends of a hole at a time of inserting the magnet therein, an outer peripheral face of the core is formed by a first curved surface formed from a magnetic pole center to between poles, with a radial distance from a shaft center of the core being largest at the pole center on the peripheral face, and a second curved surface formed from an interpolar portion toward the pole center to intersect with the first curved surface, with the radial distance from the shaft center being smallest in the interpolar portion on the peripheral face, and wherein a length of the first curved surface is larger than a length of the second curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Yabe, Kazuhiko Baba